Atlantico Business Development
Welcome to Atlantico Business Development!
Atlantico Business Development provides business development services to high profile private sector customers, focusing on maritime markets on both sides of the Atlantic.
More than seven years ago we started out with a focus on Portuguese speaking countries: Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cabo Verde and Mozambique and later spread our wings to Spain, the UK and the US.
Meanwhile we extended our client base from our hometown Rotterdam well into the Benelux (the so called ARA-region).
We are active in port promotion, ship registration and maritime security, as well as innovative business development in the wider maritime sector.
More concretely Atlantico Business Development serves shipping companies on maritime security and ship registration matters and port and terminal operators on commercial port and terminal development, besides advising and coaching numerous Dutch startups and scaleups.
Atlantico Business Development is a network organization. We operate with a small and dedicated team from our headoffice in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, while maintaining an extensive network of consultants and assistants in our core markets. We are able to upscale our team for a specific project with specific demands at any time.
OUR SERVICES
International Business Consulting
Atlantico Business Development provides international consulting to high profile companies and organisations in many countries.
Topics of our research include (or have included):
- the threats and opportunities regarding Brexit,
- future marine fuels,
- scenarios and forecasts,
- regional business analysis,
- promotion strategies,
- maritime cluster development,
- market entry,
- business development,
- market analysis,
- commercial port development,
- bunkering,
- green marine fuels,
- opportunities for flagstates,
- geopolitical risk,
- the impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war,
- security risk
and much more...
Contact us for the options!
For geopolitical risk analysis and scenarios, be also welcome to contact our sister company Atlantico Group.
Atlantico Group now forecasting geopolitical risk
Be welcome to contact our sister company Atlantico Group, founded in late 2020, for all your queries regarding geopolitcal risk. Atlantico Group is now operational in all our business hubs: London, Houston, São Paulo, Cape Town, Warsaw and Singapore.
Atlantico Group is an independent business and not afilliated to any government. It is truly international with a worldwide orientation. Acting as a business to your business or as entrepreneur to entrepreneur, the focus of Atlantico Group is on smaller and mid sized companies.
Atlantico Group is excellent value for money as there is no need for expensive subscriptions. Both written consultancy and online sparring/coaching are available at accesible rates.
Find out more here.
(Online) International Business Coaching & Consulting
Doing business is not easy and doing international business is even harder. The world is huge and there are lots of opportunities out there, as well as a lot of risk and unknown factors. These risks can be on the economy or business side of your operations, but they can also be geopolitical by nature.
EVENTS
SHIP2IBERIA 9
On January 26th 2023 Atlantico Business Development, the independent port promoter and maritime business developer of Rotterdam, will organize the 9th (online) edition of Ship2iberia. Ship2iberia is the go-to event for maritime business in Spain and Portugal and takes place annually in Rotterdam or Antwerp.
So far we can confirm speakers from the Port of Leixões, the Port of Setúbal, the Port of Algeciras, the Port of Aveiro, the Port of Lisbon, Yilport Iberia and S&C Shipmanagement and Crewing (Grupo ETE).
The event will be sponsored by the Port of Algeciras, Green Award Foundation, TecnoVeritas, Yilport Iberia, Grupo ETE, the Port of Lisbon, the Port of Setúbal, the Port of Aveiro and the Port of Leixões.
The full line up of speakers and sponsors can be found here.
Atlantico Business Development, the independent port promoter and maritime business developer of ARA is proud to announce the third edition of Ship2ARA for February 23rd, 2023!
Ship2ARA aims to highlight maritime business opportunities as well as the latest trends and developments in the many and diverse ports of Flanders and the Netherlands.Speakers are to be announced shortly.
The first and second editions featured speakers from Rotterdam Short Sea Terminals, Port of Rotterdam, Port of Antwerp, North Sea Port, Katoen Natie, Verbrugge Terminals and Kloosterboer. Also Dirk Koppenol of SmartPort Rotterdam and Prof. Hercules Haralambides of Maritime Economics & Logistics participated.
These first editions were sponsored by Port of Antwerp, North Sea Port, Green Award Foundation, Rotterdam Partners, Katoen Natie, Boluda Towage Europe, Verbrugge Terminals, Rotterdam Short Sea Terminals and Green Award Foundation.
More info to follow here.
Atlantico Business Development, the independent port promoter and maritime business developer of Rotterdam, will organize the 4th (online) edition of Ship2Brazil on March 30th, 2023. Ship2Brazil is the go-to event for maritime business in Brazil. The fourth edition will focus on port development, breakbulk and project cargo.
All are huge markets in Brazil and deserve further attention. Ship2Brazil 4 will feature four or five speakers from Brazil's top ports and companies, sharing their business opportunities and knowledege about the sector.
The line up of speakers will be announced in 2023. The previous edition included Pedro Oliveira, New Projects Director at Unimar-Agiênciamentos Marítimos, João Braz, Logistics and Industry Director at the Port of Açu, Paulo Salvador, Executive Director of Grão-Pará Multimodal, Fabiano Rodrigues, Business Director at BBC do Brasil as agents for BBC Chartering and Jean-Luc Helsmoortel, Key-Account Manager Shippers & Forwarders at Port of Antwerp, the latter highlighting the great connections between Brazil and the ARA region.
This third edition was sponsored by Unimar-Agiênciamentos Marítimos and Grão-Pará Multimodal from Brazil as well as the Port of Antwerp and the Green Award Foundation from Europe! Please find more information here.
Cabo Verde
Shipping Forum
Atlantico Business Development is happy to announce its sixth webinar: the 3rd (online) Cabo Verde Shipping Forum, set to take place on February 25th, from 15.00 - 16.00 hrs CET (Amsterdam Time). The event will be broadcast live from our studio in the Rotterdam port area.
Keynote Speaker will be H.E. Dr Paulo Veiga, Minister for Maritime Economy of the Republic of Cabo Verde, while the other speakers will include Alcídio Lopes, CEO of ENAPOR, Cabo Verde's port authority, Guilherme Gomes, Commercial Manager of shipping company GS Lines as well as Luís Viúla, Director of Business Development of bunkering supplier Enacol and Elisa Zamora, Member of the Board of MedCruise.
Sponsors of the 3rd (online) Cabo Verde Shipping Forum are Antão Shipping, the Grupo Sousa shipping group, shipping line GS Lines, shipping agent PMar, shipping agency Miller y Cía, national port authority ENAPOR, the Port of Lisbon, shipping agency Pérez y Cia. and bunkering supplier Enacol, while the event is supported by MedCruise and the CaboDutch International Business Chamber. More info here.
Save the date for our next webinar: Ship2Texas, focusing on the largest ports of the Texas Gulf Coast! Atlantico Business Development, the independent port promoter of Rotterdam, has taken the initiative to promote Texas ports and shipping in an international webinar.
Ship2Texas will run on November 5th, 2020, from 16.00-17.00 hrs CET (09.00 hrs Texas), broadcasting live from the World Trade Center in Rotterdam. During Ship2Texas we will focus on the most important ports on the Texas Gulf Coast: the Port of Corpus Christi and the Greater Houston port area, represented by the leadership of the Port of Corpus Christi, Port Houston and the Greater Houston Port Bureau.
Ship2Texas will be sponsored by Rotterdam Partners, the Green Award Foundation, Onego Shipping & Chartering and the Port of Corpus Christi. More info on Ship2Texas can be found here.